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If you don’t follow me on Twitter, you might miss the fact that I will live tweet a show no matter when it aired or how many times I’ve seen it.  Usually between midnight an 1am I’ll be tweeting about Troy Barnes because I’m watching Community reruns.  On the weekends, it’s Golden Girls while I’m browising Pinterest.  Obviously I’m over 30.

But I’ve been watching some pretty good things and want to discuss them so what better place than my bloggy blog.

Parks & Recreation – NBC but via Netflix

I never watched this because I also never really watched The Office in real time.  I Netflix binged it and by the time I caught up to real time it was too late to get into Parks & Rec.  Parks & Rec is nothing like The Office aside from the mockumentary style.  The characters love each other and Ron Swanson is hilarious.  I didn’t like the first 3 episodes of the last season because it was in the future (they skip ahead three years) and the show probably should have been over but they did a proper series finale, like Six Feet Under*, so all in all it was a great show.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix

Season 2 of Kimmy dropped (that’s how I talk) on April 15th and I was done with Season 2 on April 15th at 4:00pm CST.  I’ve watched Season 1 no less than 8 times.  Season 2 didn’t have as many legit laugh out loud moments but I also was giggling at some things too long and probably missed more jokes than I wanted to.  Plus nothing can top Peeno Noir.  It keeps with the dark tones of S1 PLUS there’s a ton of Mad Men jokes for obvious reasons.  I also love LOVED the character Tina Fey plays this season.  And Anna Camp plays a hilarious socialite. HILARIOUS.

Catastrophe – Amazon

Someone in my mom’s group on Facebook was like “I’ve been watching this show that’s great but really crass but hilarious and real life.”  I NEVER watch anything on Amazon Prime but I have it so why not.  I gae it a go and was cracking up within the first 10 minutes so it’s a winner. Rob is a Boston guy on a business trip to London when he meets Irish girl Sharon and they hook up for a solid week.  She calls him a few months later to announce that she is pregannt and they have to figure out life from there.  The actors that play the two main characters are also the writers of the show.  Like most British series, they know that too much can be too much, so Season 1 was six 30-minute episodes and so was Season 2.  I was done in two days but I really really want more.  I can’t tell if it’s all the way scripted or if they work with a lose script and improvise some.  No matter. It’s great.

2 Dope Queens – Podcast

It’s a new podcast from Jessica Williams (Daily Show) and Phoebe Robinson (writer for Broad City).  They host a stand up night in New York and try to feature female comedians and comedians of color.  It’s hit or miss as comedy goes but I do like the girls.  If you like Broad City, you’ll like 2 Dope Queens.

Everything hasn’t been great though.  I couldn’t get into the second season of Serial (Podcast).  I think I listened to the first two episodes and just didn’t care.  I might go ahead and binge listen again.

I also tried the first episode of Love on Netflix.  It’s a Judd Apatow show so it’s more real/depressing with bits of funny than lmao funny.

Next up for me is Master of None and probably Grace and Frankie.  I’m also going to give another Amazon show a try so I’m open to suggestions.  We’re also watching The Night Manager on AMC which is slow but probably going to be very great. It’s only 6 episodes but the Brits on Facebook are encouraging us to keep up with it.  My Americaness wants there to be more explosions and killings but I suppose there’s a story to be told.  Plus Tom Hiddleston is in it and you don’t really mind looking at him.

What are you streaming?  Anything that I absolutely need to check out?